On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 08:32:20PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > > Hi Roland, hi Cyril, > > On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 05:44:42PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 25/05/2025 17:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > To be honest, I almost asked what the plans were for 6.12.29-1 regarding > > > this issue, and whether Severity: important was appropriate. But I got > > > busy with other things and let this fly… > > > > > > Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> (2025-05-25): > > > > I see your point and having though the ITS mitigations in my opinion > > > > is more important. But stepping a bit back I fully understand as well > > > > your point of view. > > > > > > > > Cyril and Debian boot people, would you actually want to not get > > > > 6.12.29-1 into trixie? > > > > > > Regarding the installer itself, I'm fine with either having .29 then .30 > > > or just waiting for .30. I definitely can see how live people might want > > > to avoid a known broken kernel's reaching testing though. > > > > > > > FWIW, the next upload *will* include a fix for the loop issue. I have > > > > already imported 6.12.30 for the packaging and marked the loop fix as > > > > to be backported to 6.12. > > > > If 6.12.30 is nearly ready to be uploaded, I would propose to skip 6.12.29 > > and have 6.12.30 in (perhaps even faster than with a 10 day delay) > > > > If we were to have 6.12.29, the live images based on trixie will be > > untestable and we would fly blind regarding trixie until 6.12.30 lands > > there. We are currently unable to test the live images based on sid, which > > is already a bit uncomfortable to me, I have even considered writing a hack > > to use the trixie kernel instead. > > > > So 6.12.27 in trixie and 6.12.30 in sid seems the better option to me. > > While I think the ITS mitigations would be important, I do not want to > have your life harder working on the life images. Let's raise the > severity of this bug to RC and it will be fixed with the next upload > to unstable.
With my Grml hat on, I would also like to avoid having broken images until 6.12.30 shows up in trixie. Thanks, Chris
